Fidel Castro Leader of Cuban revolution turns 90 today in a changed region

Cuba is awash with official tributes to former leader Fidel Castro ahead of his 90th birthday today. Dotted around Havana, flags read "Gracias, Fidel" and billboards cite his best-known phrases, while state media churns out stories about the man who toppled a US-backed dictator in 1959 and went on to rule Cuba for nearly half a century.

At 90, Fidel Castro is symbol of Cuban resistance to change

A tourist looks at quote by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro explaining in Spanish, 'Why we say homeland or death," on a wall at the entrance of a landmark private restaurant in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, July 28, 2016. After a decade out of the public eye, Fidel Castro has surged back in the run-up to his birthday next month as the inspiration for Cubans who want to maintain Communist orthodoxy in the face of mounting pressures to loosen control.

Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau pushing for free trade with Cuba

Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council, which will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multibillion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.

Group pushing for free trade with Cuba

Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council that will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multi-billion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.

Time to Shove the ‘Free Love’ Generation Out the Door

The leftists who came of age in the counterculture revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s are now in charge in both Europe and the U.S., and facing a populist backlash. They failed to learn the lessons of their own experiences, and it's time for them to be dropkicked into the waste bin of history.